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7.3/10 • 537

1932-05-061h 13m

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The Strange Adventure of Allan Gray

A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.

Directors
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Editors
Tonka Taldy

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  1. Nicolas de Gunzburg

    Nicolas de Gunzburg

    Allan Grey

  2. Maurice Schutz

    Maurice Schutz

    The Lord of the Manor

  3. Rena Mandel

    Rena Mandel

    Giséle

  4. Sybille Schmitz

    Sybille Schmitz

    Léone

  5. Jan Hieronimko

    Jan Hieronimko

    The Village Doctor

  6. Henriette Gérard

    Henriette Gérard

    The Old Woman from the Cemetery

  7. Albert Bras

    Albert Bras

    The Old Servant

  8. N. Babanini

    N. Babanini

    The Old Servant's Wife

  9. Jane Mora

    Jane Mora

    The Nurse

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CinemaSerf

Jun 13, 2022

7/10

This is the ultimate slow burn, but boy is it worth it... Julian West (aka Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) is "Allan Gray" - a wandering soul who arrives at a secluded inn in a tiny hamlet. When an old man enters him room muttering about a woman's impending death and leaves him a book, our hero goes exploring and finds himself at an eerie old house where he discovers all sorts of creepy - vampiric - goings on; and the race is on the identify and destroy the creature before it's curse wreaks havoc. It is by no means akin the modern day representation of the vampire; the story is depicted using hues and shadows - light (or lack of it) is enormously important to this; the "shadow" effects are also magnificently sinister and ghostly. The narrative itself is not the greatest, the story jerks about a bit, but that doesn't really matter - it's an adapted take on a well hewn story and Theyer's focus on developing a sense of menace and tension more than compensates. Jan Hieronimko stands out at the poison-dispensing local quack as does Sybille Schmitz as "Léone" (interestingly, neither professional actors) in what is a beautifully evocative, scary telling of Le Fanu's book beautifully augmented by a sophisticated Wolfang Zeller piano accompaniment.

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Status
Released
Original Language
German
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Keywords
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